Packing and wiping waste.



PATENTED MAY 19, 1908.

M. SAMUEL. PACKING AND WIPING WASTE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 12. 1906.

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v UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

MOSES SAMUEL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

PACKING AND WIPING WASTE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MosEs SAMUEL, citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing and Wiping Waste; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention is designed to provide a waste for packing and wiping, and is particularly designed to provlde one that will have elasticity or resiliency so that it will not pack and become matted when used in a place where it would be subjected to a pres sure, and particularly where it is used at the same time for lubrication.

As at present constituted, the wiping and packing waste is made up of material that easily becomes packed when subjected to this pressure, and the result is that the feed of lubricant, if such is its use, is not continuous.

This invention relates to a packing to ob viate this difiiculty and articularly applies to making this waste of felted material so disposed that it will have a spring to it to keep it distended as much as possible. This result can be brought about by using unstiffened felt or by using felt that has been stiffened, and I find very good results when I take felt that hasbeen used in hats, both stiff and soft, also the roundings therefrom, and also felt clippings and use them either separately or in conjunction, and I prefer to prepare the felt so that it will be sure to have the necessary distension. In using the stiffened felt, such as comes from stiff felt hats, I find that the shellac or stiffening material does not interfere with the absorption and distribution of the oil when used for lubrication, and that this material can be heated and thenformed into a crimped or fluted shape and will retain this shape after cooling so that the treated material is very elastic.

In the drawings, in Figure 1 I show a section of a car bearing provided with a packing Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 12, 1906.

Patented MaylQ, 1908.

Serial No. 325,779.

waste made up'of felted material, and in the remainder of the figures from 2 to 10 inclusive, I show different forms of felt used in this packing.

In the drawings I show a car aXle 10 and a box 11 into which is placed the packing 13. There are innumerable ways in which this might be prepared, and as to some I will set forth the ones illustrated.

In Fig. 2 I show a square piece of felt 14 cut into strips working from the periphery inward, this square 14 being cut into the strip 15 which when straightened out or pulled from one end to the other would assume somewhat, the formation or structure shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 4 is a strip of felt 16 that is slitted or shirred on the ends, as at 17, this form being modified sometimes by taking a square and slitting from all or most of the sides.

In Fig. 5 I show a straight piece of felt 21 which is sometimes placed on the top of a mass of resilient felt to provide a wide contact face for the element to be lubricated.

In Fig. 6 is illustrated a similar strip 22, but with perforations 23 to lighten it, and to also make the flow of oil easier through the strip. Strips might also be cut from the stiffened or soft material, as the strip 18 in Fig. 7, and the strip 19 in Fig. 8. When these strips are twisted they form a spring, and when a hand full of them are taken up, either alone or in conjunction with thepreviously described shapes, there is a very springy mass of material.

In Figs. 9 and 10 I illustrate a strip that can be crimped or fluted as at 20, this strip also having the same function as the others.

I may also use felted material in conjunction with cotton waste, yarn waste or woolen waste, either all or part of them, and when woolen waste is used it acts as a communicating medium between the other materials and somewhat felts them together, making a springy mass that is more compact than the packing hereinbefore described. I may also use in conjunction with felt, hair cloth which makes a very good packing or wiping waste.

I do not wish to limit myself to any particular form or shape of the pieces of mate rial, so long as they provide a structure that resumes its shape after compression previously applied is taken off.

Having thus described my invention, What have hereunto set .myhandth'isll'th day of I cllitim is: 1 July 1906. pac dng consisting of promiscuous y arg MU ranged felt strips, the strips being impreg- MOSES S 5 nated With a stiffening substance not soluble Witnesses:

in oil. E. A. PELL,

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I WM. H. OAMFIELD. 

